The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-22
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The World Owes People g. Living and
Tnev Collect il From Real Estate
AGENTS.
From the Chicago Neles.

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Tney Collect it From Real Estate
Agents.
From the Chicago News
81 have just finished reading an articl,
nm Curious Freaks of Curious People
said downtown real estate man as he laiC
aside a copy of an English magazine, ''bu
if the writer would spend few days in my
business he could find material for an inter
estinr article on Curious Freaks of Com
mon People Scarcely day passes but
some individual comes into my office who
betrays eccentricity of character and
actions Very few people of sense move al
this season of the year unless necessity com.
rels them to do So As consequence the
variety of house-hunting freaks is not as
great as In the spring, yet for extreme
pecularities this time Of the year affords
the best opportunities to observe them.n
Excuse me, but there is lady outside
inquiring for you, sir, q" interrupted the real
estate mans red-bristled clerk, as he in
truded his nose and one eye into the private
Office.
who is itl Miss S--' questioned the
portly manipulation of leases, with an anx-
ious expression.
Yes, sir"
Wait about two minutes and tell her I
am at leisure" said the merchant, slowly,
after short pause. Then, turning to his
first visitor he remarked:
If you would like the opportunity to get
few points on the subject of cranks here
is good chance. This lady has the misfor-
tune to be afflicted with chronic dissatisfac-
ton. She has hired houses through me for
the past ten years, and the longest she has
ever occupied any one abode, | believe, is
eight months She is never suited and never
will be. Just take chair at that desk be-
hind the screen and you can hear what she
says"
A moment later a fashionably dressed
lady of perhaps 40 years in feature and IS
in attire entered the room
Good morning, colonelln was her OPEN
ing remark, and without waiting for re-
turn of the greeting she ratified on: II am
so glad to find you in; was dreadfully wor-
ried for fear you should be absent" and she
fitted herself snugly into the angles of a
sedan chair. Il want another house, and
want it Immediately. You know what
need, Colonel, SO it is unnecessary for me to
explain. The house you secured for me is
overrun with reaches, the furnace is out of
repair, it is too far from the horse cars. and
in dreadfully questionable neighborhood.
have nearly frozen for four weeks, now,
and my month is up Tuesday. must have
another house by then. | have done moth
ing but move, move, move for years, and
have not found house worth living in vet.
| am not at all particular, as you know,
only | will not pay at all exorbitant rates or
put up with anything other than all the
latest modern conveniences or live in any
but an elite neighborhood, and--oh, | for
got; this time be careful there are no dogs
next door. My mastiff is under the doctors
care through Mrs MonctOn's little, insig-
nificant three-pound black-and-tan terrier
having bitten him in the nose. That's all,
only remember [ want the house by
Tuesday. Good morning, Colonel"
And she arose from her chair with snap.
bobbed her head mechanically at the real
estate man, and strobe from the office with
a grenadier gait all out of keeping with her
girlish costume.
"Whew!" softly remarked the Colonel,
after the door had closed ON his caller
''How's that for a breeze. That woman
is rich and can easily afford to build one of
the finest residences in the land, but she
wouldn't be satisfied with the White House.
She is not much trouble, though, compared
with some OF my queer customers. Only
yesterday a young woman came in the
Office and said her mother wanted to hire a
house. / asked her about what rent she
wished to pay, in what locality she wanted
the house, how many rooms she needed, and
cVN Ci al NC1 COlhLlQA QuDSllUuS usually
asked, and the girl said she didn't know
anything about il. Perhaps / had better
let her have the keys of all the houses had
to let and her mother could take her pick.
That is not an uncommon suggestion of in
house-hunters. u
The Colonel paused for breath. ''You
would not think" he continued, that there
are goodly number of people living in very
fine houses in the most aristocratic local.
ties, and they do not pay cents worth of
rent. | could point out dozen residences
that have tried from one month to one
year to rent, and the owners require such a
large price that it is next to impossible.
As house is always in better condition to
let and more attractive to the eye while
occupied-for the occupants. unless I'M
usually Slovenly, are bound to keep it swept
clean and passably tidy-I have found it
good policy to allow persons to occupy
them until such time as they could be
rented. Some of this class of people never
house in which they have lived
acquires a tenant they boldly go the
rounds Of the real estate men, and ask for
the chance to occupy house in return for
keeping it in order. These are professionals
of one sort. Another class, well known in
the business, are professional beats. They
obtain keys to house and keep them for
several days, during which they live in the
house. By the time they return the keys
they have obtained the keys to some other
residence, where they practice the same
scheme. They never rent unless positively
forced to do so. They have an idea that
they are cunning and that their practices
are not known, but they are most of them
ike old landmarks and there is seldom
new face appears among them. They
think they are beating us, yet in reality they
save us the trouble and cost of cleaning
houses that are left in disorderly condi-
ton, for they naturally select the most at
tractive apartments TO clean for themselves,
and therefore leave the house in more pre-
sentable condition than when they first en-
ter it. Whatever they sleep on in an emp
ty house is introduced after dark, then they
remove it from their last camping place.
10 some whom we are satisfied are honest
we give the keys of furnished houses, and
very seldom has anything been appropriated
by them. 1t is queer way to live.
think would rather live in a hovel, if it
was my own. Such life is too near akin
to that of a tramp"